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33-Engine Static Fire: SpaceX's Starship Booster 7 Set for Record-Breaking Moment · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Elon musk's SpaceX completed this successful wet dress
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  rehearsal for the Starship. Super heavy rocket down at Boca
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  Chica Texas. Now SpaceX has once again made
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  headlines with its recent successful, wet dress rehearsal
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  test for the Starship vehicle. In this is an important
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  Milestone, which they conducted on January. 23rd 2023, and it
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  brought the company one step closer to its first orbital
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  flight test, which is expected in late, February, or March of
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  this year. Now, a wet dress rehearsal is a
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  crucial. Pre-launch test designed to
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  simulate every aspect of a rocket launch, except for the
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  engine ignition, and liftoff, in the wdr test for the Starship
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  vehicle involved, fueling and a countdown to T minus 10.
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  It's successful. Completion is a major
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  achievement for SpaceX. In addition to the wdr SpaceX
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  has also set the stage for a record-breaking, static fire of
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  the Starship booster, the rocket successfully.
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  They completed a complex fueling test and launch rehearsal
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  earlier this month. Paving the way for the static
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  fire SpaceX is wet dress rehearsal.
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  Test is significant for several reasons.
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  Firstly, it demonstrates, the company's commitment to ensuring
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  the safety and reliability of its launches.
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  And the wet dress rehearsal. Simulates, the various stages of
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  a launch from fueling to count down, allowing SpaceX to
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  identify and address any potential issues before liftoff.
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  Secondly, the successful completion.
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  Mission of the wet dress rehearsal.
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  Bring SpaceX one step closer to its goal of providing reliable
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  and affordable access to space. The Starship Vehicles being
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  developed to eventually replace all of spacex's current vehicles
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  and provide low-cost reusable spacecraft for a variety of
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  missions. Including crewed missions to the
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  Moon, Mars and Beyond finally, the wdr test is also a testament
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  to the company's technological capabilities and expertise the
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  development of the Starship vehicle.
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  Complex and challenging project and the successful completion of
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  the wdr demonstrates, the skill, and dedication of the SpaceX
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  team. Now the future of the Starship
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  vehicle is in question at this point, but with the successful
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  completion of the wdr test and the upcoming static fire SpaceX
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  is poised for a breakthrough year in 2023.
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  The company's focus on reliability and affordable
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  access to space combined with its cutting-edge.
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  Technology. Makes it a leader in the space
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  industry. And as SpaceX continues to make
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  strides in the development of the Starship vehicle, it is
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  likely that we will see many more exciting achievements in
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  the months and years to come the company's goals of enabling
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  human exploration and settlement of other planets is an ambitious
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  one, but with a successful completion of the wet dress
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  rehearsal test. It is clear, the SpaceX is well
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  on its way to realizing this Vision.
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  So SpaceX is recent wet dress rehearsal.
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  Test is a major milestone in the company's ongoing efforts to
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  provide reliable. Ability and affordable access to
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  space. This is a successful test of the
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  technological capabilities of this rocket and the commitment.
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  Going forward will be a 33 engine static fire of booster 7
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  NASA and its Mission partners are gearing up for a busy 2023
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  with crude launches and returns to the International Space
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  Station. NASA work closely with his
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  International partners and Commercial crew, providers
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  Boeing and SpaceX to secure new launch dates for the upcoming.
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  Flights that are optimal for the space stations needs now.
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  Let's get into some Starliner. Flight date targets, NASA and
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  Boeing are targeting April of 2023 for the agency's crew
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  flight test to see ft, which is the first flight with astronauts
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  on the company's cst-100 Starliner, the date adjustment.
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  D conflicts visiting spacecraft traffic at the space station as
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  NASA and Boeing work together to achieve flight Readiness for
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  this vehicle. And the team continues to
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  Progress towards star, liners crewed.
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  Flight following the successful uncrewed orbital flight test to
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  the oft, to, to the space station in May and Starliner.
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  And Ula is atlas 5 rocket Hardware.
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  Remain on track for Readiness. In early 2023, The Joint team
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  continues to close out the oft to anomalies and partners
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  closely together to identify forward work and ensure all
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  requirements for crewed flight are men.
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  When NASA, and Boeing currently are working on a variety of
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  verification, efforts across several critical systems, that
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  will be used for Star liners, crew, flight certification, for
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  CFT Boeing, recently completed the exterior of the Starliner
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  crew module, with the installation of the forward,
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  heat shield and entry cover. The previously flown crew,
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  module named Calypso will be connected to a new service
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  module later this year and formal qualification testing of
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  the CFT version of Star Line. Flight software was completed
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  last month. NASA astronauts very Butch
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  Wilmore and Suni Williams cftc's commander and pilot respectively
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  and Mike. Fink backup spacecraft, test
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  pilot along with the Boeing team.
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  Also successfully completed the crew validation test during
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  which the astronauts suited up and tested out.
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  The pressurized crew module to ensure seat fit suit
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  functionality, cabin temperature, audio systems And
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  day of launch operations. Now, the CFT astronauts will
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  live and work at the space station for about two weeks and
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  following a successful crewed. Flight NASA will work to
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  complete certification of the Starliner spacecraft and systems
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  for regular crew rotation missions to the space station.
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  A launch date for NASA's Boeing Starliner.
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  One mission will be determined following a successful flight
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  test with astronauts and close out.
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  Any of the agencies certification.
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  Work space. X Flight date targets.
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  NASA and SpaceX are targeting mid-February 2023 for launch of
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  the agencies crew. 6 mission to the International Space Station.
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  Now, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch dragon and NASA
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  astronauts. Stephen Bowen, and Woody Holberg
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  UAE astronaut, Sultan on the idea and roscosmos Cosmonaut.
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  Andre fed, you have to the space station from launch complex. 39a
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  at NASA's Kennedy. Ade Space Center in Florida.
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  In the crew will spend approximately six months on the
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  space station, starting with a short hand, over with crew 5,
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  which arrived at the station on October 4, a science Expedition
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  at the microgravity laboratory SpaceX certification and Falcon
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  9 Hardware remain on track for the six crew.
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  Rotation mission of the company's human space
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  transportation system and it's 7:00 flight with NASA
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  astronauts, including the demo to test flight to the Space
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  station, the crew six Mission will be dragged and Endeavors,
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  fourth flight to the space station, which previously
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  supported the demo to crew to in XE emission, the ax 1 missions,
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  making the spacecraft, the fleet leader in number of flights to,
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  and from the space station, the dragon spacecraft currently is
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  undergoing, refurbishment is spacex's Dragon Land facility at
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  Cape, Canaveral space, force station in Florida, NASA and
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  SpaceX are also targeting fall 2023. for the launch of the
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  agency's crew 7 mission to the ISS ahead of the return of crew
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  six this show is brought to you by now let's get back to the
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  show and NASA and Boeing recently completed a full start
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  to finish integrated Mission dress rehearsal for the
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  company's cst-100 Starliner flight with astronauts to the
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  International Space Station, which is scheduled to launch in
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  April of 2023, the flight crew test or the fct will launch
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  Astronauts. Barry Butch Wilmore in Sunny
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  Williams on Starliner. Atop A United launch Alliance.
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  Atlas 5 rocket from launch complex 41, at Cape, Canaveral
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  space for station, as part of the company's commercial crew
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  program. Now, during several days, at
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  Boeing's avionics and software integration lab in Houston, the
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  a Sil Mission rehearsal. The am are combined tests of
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  software and crew systems along with operation teams.
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  The Plea ssion of the end-to-end mission rehearsal.
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  There's a path to the next CFT. Milestones including working
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  with the crew and flight controllers.
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  On various integrated failure, scenarios and a series of flight
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  day. Parameter updates that will
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  become available as the team nears launch day.
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  Now, testing is a key component to the success of a human space.
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  Program says, NASA commercial crew, program software,
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  certification manager, Chad Shaffer, and also said the AMR
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  and the integrated failure, Those are excellent examples of
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  the rigorous testing teams are performing on Starliner.
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  The rehearsal went well, in reflects the continued
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  Improvement in executing this test in helps pave the way to
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  the much-anticipated first crewed flight.
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  During this rehearsal will mourn Williams along with fellow
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  astronaut. Mike fincke, worked through
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  Mission, milestones in coordination with Mission
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  operations teams, located inside, flight control rooms at
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  NASA's Johnson, Space Center Star Line, Our engineering
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  teammates also supported from Boeing's mission.
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  Control center located in Florida and the crew members
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  worked in a flight decks and scenario with a simulator
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  Network to control rooms and avionics operating the same
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  software that will be used during CFT and they effectively
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  demonstrated the software is ready to operate Starliner.
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  During pre-launch launch docking to the space station undocking
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  and the return to Earth through Landing.
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  The a Marv, provided end-to-end testing of Hardware,
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  configuration software, Communications preparation,
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  configuring hardware and software routing Communications
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  channels and mapping. Simulated sensor data.
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  Similar testing was performed on the oft to uncrewed Mission in
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  early 2022. We began conducting amr's with
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  the creation of oft to. And the integrated team has
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  continued to get more efficient with each rehearsal says Erin.
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  Craft check who's Starliner, avionics software integration
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  and test manager. And they also said with the
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  participation of our astronauts in the CFT, am are we have
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  enhanced the Team Dynamics and continue to learn and adjust
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  which is what AMR is all about. There's some really cool news
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  coming from the perseverance Rover on Mars right now.
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  Less than six weeks after it began construction of the first
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  sample Depot on another world is complete confirmation that
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  NASA's perseverance, Mars Rover, successfully dropped the tenth
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  and final tube planned. For the depot was received
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  around 5 p.m. Pacific time.
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  Sunday, January 29th by Mission controllers at the agency's jet
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  propulsion laboratory in Southern California.
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  And this major Milestone involved, Precision planning,
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  and navigation, to ensure that the tubes can be safely
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  recovered in a future Mission by NASA and Isa which aims to bring
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  Mars samples to Earth. Earth for closer study similar
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  to what they did with the moon rocks.
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  Now throughout its science campaigns, the Rover has been
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  taking a pair of samples from rocks the mission team deems
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  significantly scientific one sample from each pair taken so
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  far. Now, sits in the carefully
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  arranged Depot in the Three Forks, Regional jezza row,
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  crater and the depot samples will serve as a backup set while
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  the other half remained inside perseverance, which would be the
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  primary means to convey samples to a Retrieval Landing.
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  Now Mission scientists believe the igneous and sedimentary rock
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  cores, provide, an excellent cross section of the Geo logic
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  processes that take place in jazz arose shortly.
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  After the craters formation, almost 4 billion years ago.
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  And the Rover, also deposited, an atmospheric sample and what's
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  called a witness tube, which is used to determine if samples
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  being collected might be contaminated with materials.
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  That Traveled with the Rover from Earth, the titanium tubes
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  were deposited on the surface in an intricate zig-zag pattern.
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  With each Sample about 10 to 50 feet apart from one.
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  Another to ensure they can be safely recovered adding time to
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  the depot creation process. The team needed to precisely map
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  the location of each 7 inch long tube and glove combination so
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  that the samples could be found. Even if covered with dust in the
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  depot is on flat, ground near the Ace of the raised fan-shaped
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  ancient river. Delta that formed long ago with
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  a river flowed into a lake there.
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  And NASA said with the Three Forks Depot in our rearview
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  mirror. Perseverance is now headed up
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  the Delta Rick Welch. Said that also said we'll make
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  our Ascent via the hawksbill Gap and that they previously
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  explored. And once we pass a geologic
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  unit, the science team calls Rocky Top.
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  We will be in new territory and begin exploring.
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  The Delta top, great news from the perseverance Rover.
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  Hopefully we can get a sample return Mission and we can get
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  those samples back here to Earth for scientists and Engineers to
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  study. What's going on up there on the
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